Month: September 2010

Analysis 

Another Sino-Japanese Spat: So What’s New?

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By Jabin T Jacob When a Chinese fishing vessel apparently rammed into two Japanese naval vessels on 7 September, few

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Analysis 

Contest And Cooperation In The Arctic

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By Kalyani Unkule At the 2010 Arctic Summit hosted in Moscow, the key question – albeit couched in terms of

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Analysis 

Diving In Changing Times: Malaysia’s Submarine Programme

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The recent fleet integration exercise and successful launch of an anti-ship missile by the KD Tunku Abdul Rahman is a

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Analysis 

Taiwan’s Submarine Debate: Exploring Alternative Solutions

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Debates over Taipei’s submarine acquisition plan have resurfaced in recent times. The plan is likely to continue to be dogged

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Analysis 

Kim Jong-Un: Will He Last? Will He Change North Korea?

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In a dispatch from Pyongyang, the Capital of North Korea, the Government and Chinese Communist Party controlled Xinhua news agency

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Analysis 

Now A Peace Council To Negotiate With The Taliban

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By D Suba Chandran With the elections now over, Hamid Karzai has appointed a ‘Peace Council’, comprising 70 members, to

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Location of Uzbekistan. Source: CIA World Factbook.
Analysis 

Tashkent Mistakenly and Dangerously Conflates Muslim Religiosity with Islamist Extremism

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Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov and his government are confusing the high level of religiosity among Muslims in their country with

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Social Issues 

Nepal’s Political Rites of Passage

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Nepal is experiencing neither revolution, nor anarchy, nor chaos. It is in the midst of a complex rite of passage.

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Analysis 

The ‘Cold Start And Stop’ Strategy

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By Ali Ahmed Gurmeet Kanwal has it that the Cold Start doctrine is a ‘good’ doctrine for India since ‘it

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